10 Times Farrah Fawcett Was an Undercover Angel on CHARLIE’S ANGELS by getTV Staff March 16, 2021
“Female private detectives?” a man asks incredulously on a 1976 episode of
Charlie’s Angels.
It was, as they say, a different time. But scenes like this are a good reminder that casual gender bias is key to the
Angels origin story. In the show’s iconic opening sequence, rookie cops Jill (
Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Sabrina (
Kate Jackson) and Kelly (
Jaclyn Smith) are saddled with menial jobs, despite their extensive training. “But I took them away from all that,” their new employer Charlie (
John Forsythe) says in voiceover, as three capable women strut out of the police station and into pop culture history.